Delivery-cabinet



(No Model.)

' J. D. PUSTBR 8v- J. LJRISON. DELIVERY'GABINBT. No. 548,534.

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FKOTOUTH A5 STC UNi'rnD STATES PATENT Grimes.

JAMES D. FOSTER AND JDHN L. RISON, OF HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA.

DELlVEKRY-CABIN ET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.1548,534, dated October22,1895. Application tiled July 5, 1895. Serial No. 555,018. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that we, JAMES D. FOSTER and JOHN L. Bison, citizens of theUnited States, residingat Huntsville, in the county of Madi- -son andState of Alabama, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inDelivery-Cabinets; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in fthe art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

Our invention relates to improvements in store-furniture articles ofthat class known as delivery bins or cabinets, designed more especiallyfor the purpose of storing and delivering powder and shot, although thecab net may be used for fstoring other substances than those hereinmentioned.

The objects that we have in view are, iirst, to provide asimple andinexpensive cabinet in which quantities of different substances can bestored until it is desired to withdraw a part or the whole of certain ofthe contents in any one of the compartments; second, to provideconvenient means for conveying the substance from any one of thecompartments to a central spout for directing the substance into ascale-pan; third, to provide a simple valve or gate mechanism for eachcompartment of the cabinet, and, finally, to providea lockingcontrivance adapted to lock all the valves of the series of compartmentswhen the valves are closed.

With these ends in view our invention consists in the combination ofdevices, and in the novel construction and arrangement of parts, whichwill be hereinafter fully described and claimed. 4

To enable others to understand our invention we have illustrated thepreferred embodiment of our cabinetin the accompanying drawings, forminga part of this specifi-` thereof on the plane indicated by the dottedline fc fr of Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a detail perspec tivcview of one of thevalves and its operating-stem. Fig. 1i is a det-ail Vview of thelockingbar.

Like letters of reference denote corresponding parts in all the figuresof the drawings, rei ierring to which- A designates the inclosing shellor casing of the cabinet. We prefer to make this casing of substantiallyrectangular shape, and to mount it upon the legs a, although the shapeand the way of supporting the cabinet are not material and may be variedat pleasure. This case A'is divided into a series of compartments B C bymeans of the transverse partitions b b, and each compartment has asloping false bottom c, which inclines downward toward and below adischarge-port CZ, provided in the solid front rail a of the cabinet.`l/Ve prefer to provide a glass front e to the series of compartments toenable the storekeeper to readily ascertain the quantity of powder andshot or other substances contained in the compartments of the cabinet;

but the use of this glass front e is optional line with the'port d fromthe central com-- partment C; but it is evident that a single continuousstrip may be used with an opening or recess to coincide with the port ofthe com partizioni;V C.

G H designate the sloping conveyer troughs or chutes, and I is thecentral spout by which the contents of the several compartments B C maybe conveniently discharged into a scalepan or other receptacle. Thesechutes'and the spout are suitably secured to thefront rail a of thecabinet below the series of ports d from the compartments, and we preferto arrange the spout I below lthe central compartment C, while thechutes G H areV below the side compartments B B. The chutes are closedat their outer ends at the sides of the cabinet, and said chutes areinclined or arranged in sloping positions from the sides of are arrangedto close the ports d to the com-` partments B and are provided withvertit cally-disposed operating-stems j, while the valve K is arranged`to close the port to the central compartment C and it has a horizontaloperating-stem 7c.

V In the cabinet shown and herein described as an embodiment of ourinvention we intend to use the central compartment O for the storage ofpowder, while the side compartments B are for storing shot of differentsizes. Hence we arrangethe stem for the valve of the powder-compartmentC in a different position from the valve-stems of the side compartments,so that the storekeeper will not be so liable to make a mistake invending powder for shot, or vice versa, as when all the stems arearranged in `the same positions. Each valve J has two lugs j j, oneextending horizontally and the other vertically beyond the edge of thevalve-plate, and through the lateral lug j is passed. the pivot-pin orscrew that fastens the valve to the front rail a, while a pivot-pinpasses through the vertil j to partially connect the valve and its stemtogether. These vertical valve-stems jare fitted and guided in notchesZ, formed in the front overhanging edge of the top of the casing A, andthey are held in place by a strip Z', fastened to the cabinet top overthe notches l, the protruding ends of the valve-stems having suitablepull-pieces for their convenient manipulation. Each vertical stemj isprovided with a notch m near its upper end, and into these notches areadapted to take the lips n on the horizontal locking-bar N. Thislocking-bar is fitted beneath the overhanging front edge of the top ofthe casing, audit has a series of longitudinal slots n', through whichare passed the screws '17,, that serve to connect the locking-bar to thetop of the casing iu a manner to permit said barto'have alimited slidingmovement. Said locking-bar has a series of notches p cut in its outeredge, forming the shoulders or lips fn, and at one end this bar N has asuitable pull-'piece o for its convenient manipulation. The verticalstemsj of the valvesJare litted in thenotches p of the pull-bar, andwhenA all of the valvestems are lowered to close the valves J across theports d of the compartments B the bar N can be pulled out to force thelips n into the notches fm, thereby locking all the stems j and thevalves J across the ports of, the side compartments.

It desired, each valve-stem j maybe pressed normally downward to keepthe valve J closed across the port from the compartment B by means ot'the coiled spring Q, (shown by Fig. 1,) said spring having one endresting upon a pin, shoulder, or lug on the valvestem and its other endbearing against the over-hanging edge of the top of the cabinet oragainst the locking-rod N.

The valve K is pivoted at an intermediate point of its length to thefront rail ct by the pin or screw la', and `the horizontal stem it ofsaid valve is guidedin a suitable fixed keeper lo, the free end of thevalve-stem having a suitable finger-piece, as shown.

It is intended that our cabinet shall be placed in a storecounter inconvenient position to a scales, so that the contents of thecompartments may be discharged directly into the scale-pan; but if it isnot conven ient toso place the cabinet a flexible tube may be connectedto the spout in order that the substance may be easily directed to thescales.

If the storekeeper desi-resl to sell a quan tity of powder, the stem 7cis pulled to raise the valve K and permit the powder to dow from thecompartment C, through the port d, into the spout I, and thence tothescale-pan, after which the stem 7o is shoved back to close `the port ofsaid compartment C. To withdraw shot from either of the compartments Bthe rod N is forced in to release its shoulders n from the notchedvalve-stems, the proper valve-stem isl lifted to raise the valve, andthe shot can now dow into the chute G or H, thence tothe spout I, andthence to the scale-pan, after which the valve stem is shoved down andthe rod N pulled out to lock allot the vertical valve-stems.

It' desired, a suitable locking contrivance may be provided for thehorizontal stem ,7c of the valve K.

Ve areaware4 that changesin the form and proportion of parts and in thedetails of con-V struction of the devices herein shown and described asan embodiment of our invention can be made by a skilled mechanic withoutdeparting from the spirit or sacrificing the advantages of ourinvention; and we therefore reserve the right to make such changes andalterations as fairly fall within the scope of our invention.

Having thus fully described our invention, whatwe claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-A l. The combination of a casinghaving a series of isolated compartments and with vertical guides, aseries of gates across the discharge ports from said compartments, thevalve stems connected to the gates and titted in the vertical guides,and a locking rod slidably supported on the casing and having meansadapted to engage with, or be disengaged from, the series of the valvestems, substantially as described.

III

. A delivery cabinet comprising a, casing ously and a horizontal stemconnected to endivided into a. series of isolated compartments andhaving the discharge ports and the vertical guides, the central spout,the reverselyinclined chutes, arranged below the ports, to deliver tothe spout, the pvoted gates, the vertical valve stems fitted in theVertical guides and connected to certain of the gates, e locking rodcommon to all of said vertical stems and adapted to be engagedtherewith, and to be disengaged therefrom, simultaneother of the seriesof gates, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we affix our sgna- I5 tures in presence of twowitnesses.

JAMES D. FOSTER. JOHN L. RISON. l/Vitnesses:

J. O. ROBINSON, J. S. ALLIsoN.

